{"product_id":"unsettled-ayana-mathis-9780525435617","title":"The Unsettled","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - WINNER OF THE GABE HUDSON PRIZE \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e From the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie\u003c\/i\u003e, a searing multi-generational novel--set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Emotionally propulsive ... Through a chorus of distinctive and virtuosic voices, we gather the story of a mother, a daughter, and the land that both unites and divides them.\"- \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003e- \"Showcases Ayana Mathis's grace on the page, as writer, as storyteller. A book to be read and re-read.\" - Jesmyn Ward, author of \u003ci\u003eLet Us Descend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo bold, utopic communities are at the heart of Ayana Mathis's searing follow-up to her bestselling debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie\u003c\/i\u003e. Bonaparte, Alabama - once 10,000 glorious Black-owned acres - is now a ghost town vanishing to depopulation, crooked developers, and an eerie mist closing in on its shoreline. Dutchess Carson, Bonaparte's fiery, tough-talking protector, fights to keep its remaining one thousand acres in the hands of the last five residents. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, her estranged daughter Ava is drawn into Ark - a seductive, radical group with a commitment to Black self-determination in the spirit of the Black Panthers and MOVE, with a dash of the Weather Underground's violent zeal. Ava's eleven-year-old son Toussaint wants out - his future awaits him on his grandmother's land, where the sounds of cicada and frog song might save him if only he can make it there. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Mathis's electrifying novel, Bonaparte is both mythic landscape and spiritual inheritance, and 1980s Philadelphia is its raw, darkly glittering counterpoint. \u003ci\u003eThe Unsettled\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding portrait of two fierce women reckoning with the steep cost of resistance: What legacy will we leave our children? Where can we be free?","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49952265666753,"sku":"9780525435617","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9780525435617.jpg?v=1770044843","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/unsettled-ayana-mathis-9780525435617","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}